DrStrangelove wrote:
Not trying to distract from the topic of this thread, which is politics in extreme music, and mainly black metal.

How far does it go, how far should it go, and how deeply is it entrenched?

(Maniac, best known from Mayhem)

Poor wording, it's hardly about actual politics... what I should have said is: When is it provocation, when is it ideology, and when is it just people being really fucked up? Or adults being ultra-pubescent tits?

This is one of the prime black metal vocalists, and this picture is a good symbol of the whole matter. To me it seems like the black metal community tries to ignore/trivialise it. But imo it should be adressed honestly.

That brings back memories. I listened to Serpent's Egg and Within the Realm of a Dying Sun to death back in the 80s - for some reason they transport me back to pitch black cold winter mornings doing my paper round with my walkman!

Every note of those albums is burned into my brain. For me DCD have never recorded anything quite as good since then.